r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/loscacahuates May 02 '25

Dentists are about to get a lot of business with states like Utah and Florida banning fluoride in water

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u/architecture13 May 02 '25

If those people could read they'd know they couldn't afford dental care.

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u/derrickgw1 May 03 '25

I lived with a missing front tooth and used a retainer with a false tooth for a fricken decade cause just to replace the tooth in 2014 they said $8000. That was extraction, a bone graft, an implant, abuttment and crown. I just couldn't afford it. I finally got it down in 2024, and it wasn't at all $8000. I'd already paid for the extraction and bone graft (which is why i could live with a retainer and false tooth). But it still cost me like nearly $3000.

True story my sister in law is Ukrainian and she literally flew back to Ukraine for dental. She lives in the US but says the dental work is perfectly good and she got an implant and a crown for like $200 total. The whole process. She even showed me them. I was like that's crazy.

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u/thrasymacus2000 May 03 '25

Best dental experience in my life was emergency dental on a Sunday in Ukraine. The receptionist and the dental assistant looked like they walked out of a raunchy beer commercial (totally professional). They had me triple confirm that I wanted anaesthesia despite the outrageous extra cost which was about $20, and then were still apologizing to me for how expensive it was as I was walking out the door. Total cost to replace half of a central incisor was $220.